Culture of the Roaring 20s

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Culture of the Roaring 20'sEconomyIn this decade, America was the wealthiest country in the world New technology and new inventions = thriving businesses and vibrant consumer cultureIt shows the newer generation being able to climb up on the economic ladder In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is able to make thousands by bootleggingMusic TransportationTrainstraveling by train for decades Southern Railway operated 100 daily trains. >1,500 towns/cities had railway stations.The ticket cost depended on the quality of the train.train travel was the safest/most comfortable carried: people, manufactured goods, food, daily mail, & express packageslong-distance travel WOmen's ClothingFlapper eraShort Dresses often sleeveless Ankle-strap heelsBrimmed hats or feathered headbandsUndergarments had color and and patternsMore makeup and jewelry "It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees." pg. 90DrinkProhibition1920 to 1933.help create simpler timeshad an opposite effect more desirable, more fashionable bootleggersAl Capone- $60 million annuallySt. Valentines Day Massacre in Chicagospeakeasymoonshine and bathtub ginDecember 1933Utah the 36th voteThe 1920's was considered the jazz age! Fast beat Symbolized the decades spirit of liberation A new dance style came upon themVery spontaneous, and wild More physical contact with the other genderShocked the older generation Joe "King" Oliver was the musician of the timeOriginal Dixieland Jazz Band- Recorded- Copied from Af. Am. 1922 was when African Americans started creating music Broadways "prime years"50 new plays $1.50-$3.50"There was music coming from my neighbor's house through the summer nights" pg. 39

Someone makes the productSomeone buys the productThe workers get paid for making the product and spend their own moneyCycle of the booming EconomyMen's ClothingSlimmer suits with casual tiesBaggy trousers with cuffs and a slim beltFedoras or brimmed hatsTwo-toned or wingtipHeavy furs" I must have felt pretty weird by that time, because I could think of nothing except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon." pg. 142Sports ClothingPlain, plaid, check, or tweed pantsLong sleeve striped shirt with collarFlat/Ivy hatsVestOxfordsFOodSense of creativity using grape juice fruit cocktailsModern vegetarianismpeanuts instead of meat raw foodssaladstea sandwiches Ladies Aid Societies and Domestic Scientists the poorworkersnewly arrived immigrantsRefrigerators "He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. "One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hidenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass." pg. 61TransportationCarsrapidly growing automobile industry led by Henry Fordnew and better models every yeartax on gas (2-5 cents per gallon) roads redesigned and rebuilt for automobilenew road rules, road signs, method of controlling traffic (densely populated areas)cars had large diameter skinny tires (cutting through mud & solid ground)low cost Model T Ford (most popular) to expensive Duesenberg (Jay Gatsby) targeted women so they can increase range of colors, interior linings, easier to drive and maintainbright paint colors and dual tone color schemes freedom automobiles in the U.S. passed the 10M markModel T FordDuesenberg Jazz: The Black Bottom Dance